The land rental of Chinese rural households and its welfare effects

Li, Rui; Li, Qinghai; Lv, Xiaofeng; Zhu, Xiaofeng

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2018.11.004

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“…The study results suggest that farmland rental participation activity significantly affected Chinese rural households' on-farm income. Renting in farmland significantly and positively affected lessee households' on-farm income and household total income, which agrees with existing findings in previous studies [4,19,20]. Meanwhile, the increase in farmland renting in area and household agricultural productivity directly improve their on-farm income and strengthened each other's role in promoting farm income.…”

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“…Thus, farmland rental participation is strongly associated with the reallocation of land holdings and labor endowment distribution between farming and non-farming activities; it therefore affects household income earnings. Previous studies have documented that increasing household farm size by renting farmland from others ("rent in") can enhance agricultural output and farm income [7,[18][19][20]; however, renting out farmland ("rent out") had a limited and mixed effect on farm income [6,19]. Furthermore, the impact of farmland rental on off-farm income remains controversial [19,21,22].…”

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Farmland Rental Participation, Agricultural Productivity, and Household Income: Evidence from Rural China

Han

2021

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The rural land rental market is playing an increasingly important role in the agricultural transformation period for developing countries, including China, where rural farmland rental is highly context-specific with the implementation of the collective-owned rural land system; thus, in turn, the access to farmland rental markets for rural households has profoundly influenced their livelihood strategies and income earnings. This paper investigates the income impact differences caused by rural households’ farmland rental participation activities and explores such impact mechanisms by further evaluating the income impacts caused by rental area and household agricultural productivity. Data from the Chinese national household survey were used for estimating the empirical models. Our results show that farmland renting has positively affected households’ on-farm and total income, but there is no significant effect upon off-farm income. According to income differences across quantiles, we find households with high on-farm income are more sensitive about enlarging their farm size by renting farmland, and households with middle and upper-middle off-income may benefit more from renting out their farmland. Furthermore, the joint effects of renting area and household agricultural productivity on lessee households’ farm income is significantly positive. For lessor households, our results indicate that renting out farmland did not improve their off-farm and total income as it may have a limited effect on farm household labor distribution. Our findings suggest that engaging in farmland rental activity can enhance farming productivity efficiency and poverty alleviation among rural households. Under the collective-owned rural land system, it is urgent and necessary to initiate and design incentive policies to encourage highly efficient large farms to expand the farm size and provide smallholders with equal opportunities to engage in farmland rental activities.

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Farmland Rental Participation, Agricultural Productivity, and Household Income: Evidence from Rural China

Han

2021

Land

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“…In general, most prevailing solutions can be summed up into two methods: market approach and administration mechanism. The former, whose patterns mainly include the definition of property rights and the transactions in the markets (LI et al, 2019), is referred to rearrange decentralized land through the "invisible hand." Many scholars hold that theory as long as the cost of LF exceeds the revenue, thus the solutions of centralized land utilization to LF will be found and put into effect naturally.…”

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Can farmers’ combined-tillage promote the agricultural production efficiency? - Evidence from land fragmentation

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Cienc. Rural

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With the gradual transfer of an enormous young and middle age labor force from agricultural field to non-agricultural sectors, the negative role of land fragmentation (LF), which is related to food security, is increasingly reflecting in the process of agricultural modernization. Meanwhile, the positive roles of farmers’ combined-tillage in production are gradually emerging. Based on the above background, this study explained the relationship among farmers’ combined-tillage, LF and agricultural production efficiency (APE). The study used survey date and the SFA-QR model to empirically investigate the effects of LF and farmers’ combined-tillage on APE. Furthermore, this article analyzed the moderating effect of farmers’ combined-tillage on the relationship between LF and APE. The results demonstrated that: (1) Farmers combined-tillage improves the APE significantly, especially on low and medium efficiency households; (2) LF has a negative impact on APE, especially on low and medium efficiency households; (3) Combined-tillage could alleviate the adverse effects of LF on APE. In this regard, the paper also proposed some suggestions to face the adverse effects of LF and promote farmers’ combined-tillage in production.

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“…In the past 40 years, China has reformed the transfer of RLCMRs, including the 'Two Rights Separation' and 'Three Rights Separation' reforms of rural land, development of the rural land transfer market, and confirmation of rural land rights. These reforms have not only raised the stability and mobility of land use rights (Xu et al, 2018) but also greatly improved farmers' enthusiasm for grain production, agricultural productivity and welfare (Deininger & Jin, 2005;Krusekopf, 2002;Li et al, 2019;Lin, 1992;McMillan et al, 1989).…”

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Does the transfer of farmland use rights increase farmers’ long‐term intention to work in cities?

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Xiong

2021

Econ of Transit and Inst Chang

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The land rental of Chinese rural households and its welfare effects

Cited by 29 publications

References 25 publications

Farmland Rental Participation, Agricultural Productivity, and Household Income: Evidence from Rural China

Farmland Rental Participation, Agricultural Productivity, and Household Income: Evidence from Rural China

Can farmers’ combined-tillage promote the agricultural production efficiency? - Evidence from land fragmentation

Does the transfer of farmland use rights increase farmers’ long‐term intention to work in cities?

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